Built to benefit everyone: our plan | OpenAI

A vision for the future of AI, focusing on access, safety, and shared prosperity as OpenAI works to ensure AGI benefits everyone.

June 8, 2026 Company Built to benefit everyone: our plan By Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki Loading… Share Every few generations, a new technology changes everything. Imagine electricity reaching a rural American town in the 1920s. Before power lines arrived, daily life was shaped by physical limits: hauling water, washing clothes by hand, preserving food with ice, and ending much of the day when the sun went down. Electricity did not transform every household overnight, and many of its benefits reached people unevenly. But as access spread, ordinary life changed. Light at night extended the day

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